[comp.os.vms] IBM Looking like DECnet

EVERHART%ARISIA@rca.COM ("GLENN EVERHART, 609 486 6328") (08/21/87)

The package that makes an IBM mainframe look like a DECnet node is
called Interlink; we have it here and it works just fine. They use
IBM resident software to talk at channel speeds to a PDP11 router
so that RSX DECnet is the router one sees. However the IBM side can
both create and receive DECnet connections. There is a VM version
and an MVS version.
	Note: IBM's notion of security seems much less comprehensive than
one is used to in VMS; some care in allowing access via the IBM is needed
to avoid creating security holes.
	Interlink is advertised in DEXPO and in magazines; sorry, I don't
have address info.

JSEDAYAO%MATTEC@intel-sc.CSNET (08/26/87)

InfoVAXERS:

Intel also sells a package that allows a an IBM to look like a DECnet node.
It uses an Intel FastPath and software from FlexLink.  You can get an inter-
face to PROFS, file transfer, terminal emulation, and all of that good stuff.

Also, Interlink, which also sells a product that does the same thing, is in
Fremont California.

Jeff Sedayao